Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs
Bac. 2020
Assembled by Mouad El Arfaoui
Phrasal verbs
A phrasal verb is a verb + a particle ( in on up down off from about …etc.)
When the particle is added to the verb, it changes its original meaning and gives it a
new meaning.
The meaning of the verb changes in different degrees ( 0% - 50 % - 100%)
Give Give up
To stop doing an activity
To supply / offer someone something
A verb A phrasal verb
Give To offer someone something
Give up To stop doing an activity The meaning changed 100 %
Go To move away
Go out To move outside a place The meaning changed 50 %
Cheer To be happy
Cheer up To be happy The meaning changed 0 %
EXAMPLES OF PHRASAL VERBS
PHRASAL VERBS
THEIR MEANINGS
ARABIC EQUIVALENTS
Apply for
Ask for, demand (job / grant/ visa
..)  ….
Ask ..... out
Ask someone on a date

Break down
Stop working or functioning

Bring up
Raise and educate a child

Bring about
Cause something to happen

Calm down
Relax

Call off
Cancel

Carry on
Continue

Come in
Enter

Come back
Return

Come across
Meet someone by chance

Check in
Register in a hotel / party

Check out
To leave a hotel
(after paying for the services) 
Cross out
To draw a line through a word

Cheer up
To
feel happy 
Cut down
Reduce

Cope
with
Deal with a difficult situation
 
Group 1 : A C
PHRASAL VERBS THEIR MEANINGS ARABIC EQUIVALENTS
Drop out
To stop going to school
 
Drop
by= drop in
visit someone informally

Eat out
Eat outside the house (at a restaurant)
  
Fill in
Complete (an application form)

Figure out
Find an answer for something

Find out
Discover

Give up
Stop / surrender

Get
back
to receive
something back / to return  
Get
on
Enter a
vehicle ( a car) 
Get
off
Leave a vehicle ( a car)

Get
up
leave
your bed
 
Go back
To return
to place you were in before ….
Go on
Continue

Go through
Experience or endure

Grow
up
Become
older / mature

Go
over = look over
Review
 

Group 2 : D G
PHRASAL VERBS THEIR MEANINGS ARABIC EQUIVALENTS
Hand out

Hand in
back (papers) 
Jot
down
rite down (ideas) 
Keep up with
something 
Let down
... 
Lie down
   
Look after

Look down on




Look for

Look
foward to = Long for
  

Look into =check into
Examine, investigate   
Look out
 

Look up


Log in (on)
= sign in
) 
 ) (
Log out
= sign out
(Facebook ) account   ) (
Group 3 : H L
PHRASAL VERBS THEIR MEANINGS ARABIC EQUIVALENTS
Make up
To
innvent (excuse story) 
(
Pass away
To die

Pass out
Lose consciousness

Pick up
Collect
/ learn ( a language)   / 
Put on
= dress up
Wear
clothes, shoes .. 
Put off
Postpone

Put up
Accommodate someone

Put up with
Tolerate


Put out
Extinguish
fire, a 
Run into
Meet by chance / face a problem

 
Run
across
Find
something by chance  
Run
out of
Not having something anymore
  
Show up
Appear / arrive
 
Stay up
Not to go to bed
)
(
Stand for
Represent
  .... 
Set up
Build
, establish ( a
club, a business ..)
 ….
Group 4 : P S
PHRASAL VERBS THEIR MEANINGS ARABIC EQUIVALENTS
Take
after
Resemble
/ look like someone 
Take
care of
Look after

Take off
Leave the
ground (a plane) 
Take off
Remove clothes

Try on
Test the look or size by wearing it
)

Throw up
Vomit

Turn up
Raise the volume
 
Turn down
Reduce the volume
 
Turn on
=
switch on
Activate a machine
(TV, radio, phone)
)
Turn off
=
switch off
Deactivate a machine
(TV, radio, phone)
)
Take up
Start a new activity

Turn down
Refuse, reject

Take over
Control

Tear down
Destroy

Tear up
Tear something into pieces

Write down
Record / write

Group 5: T W
Practice1:
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